Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 3

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• I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Dream, Differences

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 183, 1919.

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• Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

  Hermann Hesse

  Strength, Strong, Demand

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• The truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Truth, Literature, Taught

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• madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

  Hermann Hesse

  Madness, Steppenwolf, Higher

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Finals, Done, Steps

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• When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Investing, Enough

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• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  Hermann Hesse

  Communication, Different, Littles

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• Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Hands, Doubt

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• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.98, Om Books International

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• . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Rocks, Water

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• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Song

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• Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

  Hermann Hesse

  Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  Hermann Hesse

  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

  Hermann Hesse

  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

  Hermann Hesse

  Success, Men, World

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• Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Believe, Endure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.75, Macmillan

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• No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flow, Fit, Wave

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.429, Macmillan

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• The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, People, World

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• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

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• There is a miracle in every new beginning

  Hermann Hesse

  New Beginnings, Miracle

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• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Freedom, Ideas, Literature

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